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Simply put, Oliver is a massive disappointment based on his draft position and expectation. He's at best a borderline #2 DT and ideally he'd be a #3. I wouldn't paya penny over $3M a year for his production.

Probably not, but even if he does come back, he is a backup-tier player.

The Bills red helmet is up there with the all-time worst helmets in the super bowl era.

AI has much better composition.

The last two have - Kyle Pitts and TJ Hokenson. The 3rd is playing in the AFC championship as Cincinnati's TE #1. Noah Fant is the 4th and while not a star to date has been a reliable option. From 2017 OJ Howard was a bust, Evan Engram just finished a career year and will be a major FA target most likely, and David Njoku finished 9th in yards for TEs despite being hampered by injury. You have pretty high odds of getting a quality TE in round 1 Pettigrew and Keller suffered serious injuries that ended their careers early. Olson was a star before them. vernon Davis and Marcedes Lewis (still in the league) before him. Heath Miller was a stud. Kellen Winslow flamed out in 04 not for a lack of ability and Dallas Clark was a HOF Caliber TE in 03. So in the last 20 years - you had 2 busts, 2 couple players whose career was cut short by injury, a couple solid players and a handful of superstars. There might not be a safer position to draft in the first round based on that. http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php/positions/te

I would fire McD and I would have had a talk with Reich before he got hired in Carolina. I'd also talk to Peyton - with the condition that I'd want to know what he would have done differently with a similar level of talent on Defense and who he would have on his list for d-coordinators. For too many years, defense sunk NO's battleship. As for Beane, I would want to understand his past methodology behind picks of players and especially behind guys that seemed to be reaches like Epenesa, Bernard, Cody Ford and Zach moss. If I felt like the methodology was sound I'd let him know where I expected us to improve and give him another kick at the can. If I felt like he panicked to get a player at a position of need without strong evidence they could contribute at or above their draft stock, I'd fire him too and consider promoting from within based on scouting analysis. Otherwise, I'd definitely talk to Jon Robinson who drafted some great players in Tennessee and if it wasn't for his handling of QB and his trade of AJ Brown, he'd probably still be employed. Given that QB would be set for him here, I'd be fairly confident about the rest of what he brings.

We have more secondary talent than the Ravens and they did just fine. We also have an all-pro linebacker and another linebacker many folks like to argue is a "top 10". I'd like to think Harbaugh would have done a FAR better job with the same group of players.

Whew. Glad that's over.

Cinci. In KC the coaching staff was situationally unprepared and the defense came up short when we needed them to. In Cinci the coaching staff was completely unprepared to the point where it's conceivable that someone's dog ate the gameplan and both the offense and defense were listless from the get go. It was worse than the 2018 Jaguars game.

Absolutely. He'll be gone after next season and is unlikely to provide consistent value after 4 up and down years. Time to move on from this failed Aaron Donald 0.125 experiment.

Derek Carr is just a worse version of Prescott. I won't say there's no way this happens, but it would be colossally stupid unless the plan is to draft one early and have Carr be a cheaper bridge.

This statement is objectively false. Their drafting is poor by any standard. For all of the flack that people gave Doug Whaley, he's drafted the only All-Pro on the Bills roster. If we didn't have Josh Allen, Beane's tenure is a failure. As for coaching, I'd put our gameday coaching and game-planning in the bottom 3rd of the NFL. McDermott is a nice guy and gives leadery quotes though. Is that what you mean when you say we have one of the best coaching staffs?

No - it's evidence that picking late in a draft doesn't mean you have to draft poorly when other teams do it just fine.

Not specifically no. You can see the same problems in October that show up in January but Josh Allen and the leagues highest paid defense can cover it up for a while.

Ejiro Evero sounds like he'd be a good fit: Head Coach of the Super Bowl Champion Rams, Sean McVay, is not surprised by Evero's success in Denver, "Incredibly smart, intelligent, great disposition, demeanor," McVay said of Evero. "[He] knows how to connect with all types of guys, knows how to be able to help them reach their highest potential…[He's an] absolute stud. Least surprised person of how well they've done and how great of a job he's doing leading the defense is me." Evero is not married to one scheme, whether 4-3 or 3-4; he will let the players he has to dictate that, but one philosophy that he will always subscribe to is the importance of getting to the quarterback. "Regardless of how it turns out, you have to affect the quarterback," Evero said. "That's the No. 1 deal in terms of stopping the pass game in the NFL. We have to pressure the quarterback…" https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/LongFormArticle/Cleveland-Browns-NFL-Defensive-Coordinator-Updated-January--197818983/#197818983_1

Not that much. In every draft we've had over the last 5 years you can look at a team that's drafted after us and picked a superior player excluding Josh Allen. We traded up for Edmunds who underperformed until year 5 and could have had Shaq Leonard a round later or Fred Warner 2 rounds later who have been superior since their rookie year. We drafted Cody Ford the following year and could have had any number of superior playmakers including all pro WRs in AJ Brown and Metcalf. Additionally we panicked after runs on players out of need. We drafted Moss as the 9th RB taken in the 3rd round, well after the value was gone. The top 6 have all been meaningful contributors and the rest have been ineffective depth. You can't do that with a 3rd round pick. Similar situation with Epenesa in a weak EDGE class in the 2nd.

The problem with the way the NFL and sports fans use the term "analytics" is that they mostly focus on aggregate scores that show everything is great and don't take into consideration specific situational outcomes that would indicate why this team comes up small in big situations - this would be referred to as "insights". Why is that? Because it's a lot harder to do the latter. You need to know the questions to ask and you need to understand domain knowledge enough to make use of it. Without it, you might as well go by "the eye test".

The defense we play is atrocious. It's a passive scheme designed to exploit weak opponents who fail to plan for it and make tactical errors in play selection. As we've seen 3 years running, it fails gloriously against talented teams that exploit its weaknesses and play around its strengths. That's exactly what teams like the Bengals and Chiefs have done for years. Because of how passive it is, no one on the DL is really in a position to succeed. Before he got here, Mario Addison was a p[ass rushing monster good for 10 sacks a year. His production was instantly sliced in half and Bills fans identified him as a problem. Jerry Hughes, in his first year away from this defense recorded 9 sacks - his highest total since 2014. He had 2 last year starting in this defense. There's not a doubt in my mind that Basham would be more successful on another team and probably Rousseau too. Epenesa tries hard, but he's not good enough to be anything more than a fringe roster player.

You really don't want to come down with it. It's not a pretty sight for anyone around you.

6/14 is still pretty good at ~43%. the math on retread coaches isn't quite as simple as just looking who they are today because ideally you'd want to look at all of them over the same period. However, this season there were 8 HC "re-treads" who were previously HCs for other teams: Reid Carroll Pederson McCarthy Todd Bowles Belichick Ron Rivera Lovie Smith 5 made the playoffs, two got close and one ended in last place. Bowles, Pederson and Smith were in their first year with new clubs and Belichick, Rivera and Smith each started several QBs due to injury of ineffectiveness.

based on what? 12 of the last 20 super bowls were won by coaches you could deem re-treads if the qualification is: fired from a previous NFL HC job. 13 depending on how you count Arians.

chemtrails.

did someone's parents get divorced? It snowed a lot...

Being "emotionally drained" isn't an acceptable excuse. it's 3 hours out of a 168 hour week that they had to suck it up. If they couldn't, that's an indictment of management.

Exactly how does a Blizzard/deaths not related at all to the football team drain their energy? Von Miller wasn't even here last year, and we have 3 young draft picks at the position. Losing multiple Safeties hurt us, but it's one position and not why we lost. Every team has injury problems. The Bengals just lost their Left tackle for the season along with two other offensive lineman. They sure didn't look gassed/drained when they stomped all over us. It just sounds like a super weak series of excuses that don't actually point to a legitimate reason why they were unprepared.